Department News
Class of 2008 opens Senior Show
May 16, 2008Sixteen senior Studio Art majors opened their final art exhibition May 16 with a gala reception in Boliou Hall and the Art Gallery. Their work includes various mediums. Each students' artist statement is listed on the Senior Show website.
Tim Lloyd exhibit at The Smithsonian Craft Show
May 1, 2008Tim Lloyd, Class of 1941 Professor of Art and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus, exhibited his work at the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington recently. One of Tim’s silver teakettles, “Kitano Fantasy” was selected for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s Renrick Gallery. The teapot was recently published in 500 Metal Vessels, Contemporary Explorations of Containment, published by Lark Books.
"Printmaker's Walk through the Exhibition"
April 10, 2008Printmaker and Professor of Studio Art, Fred Hagstrom, offered his insights to the "Whistler's Circle" exhibition by presenting "A Printmaker's Walk through the Exhibition" in April in the Gallery.
Art History Junior chosen for Cloisters internship
April 1, 2008Mya Dosch '09 has been selected for an internship at the Cloisters in New York this coming summer. Mya is an Art History major from Shell Lake, Wisconsin.
Work accepted to two shows
March 12, 2008Juliane Shibata, '01 and visiting professor of ceramics, has had three pieces accepted into Small Works Show, Northville Art House, Northville, MI and one piece into the Contemporary Clay Biennial at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts in Grand Junction, CO.
CAA presentation by Alison
March 3, 2008Alison co-chaired a session,"Gender and the Market in Netherlandish Art," at the annual College Art Association meetings in February in Dallas.
From Paper and Stones
February 5, 2008Educational fifth-year assistants Sophie Eisner and Megan Fitz present their work in the Boliou Gallery through February. The title of their show is "From Paper and Stones."
An opening reception was held Feb. 6. Gallery hours are M-F 8 a.m.-10 p.m, Sat and Sun, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Juliane's work at Northern Clay Center
January 31, 2008The opening of "Bountiful Visions" will be held March 7 at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis from 6 to 8 p.m. The work of Juliane Shibata, visiting instructor in Art and Art History 2007-08, and Eva Kwong will be exhibited.
Where the Sky Meets the Earth
January 25, 2008Kelly's exhibition "Where the Sky Meets the Earth" opens, reception
5:30-7:30pm, at Augsburg College om Feb. 29, 2008. Show dates: Feb 29 through April
4th, 2008.Alison published in The Art Bulletin
January 2, 2008Alison Kettering had an article published in the December 2007 issue of The Art Bulletin. The article was entitled "Men at Work in 17th-century Dutch Art, or Keeping One's Nose to the Grindstone."
Fred Hagstrom published article
November 26, 2007Fred Hagstrom, Professor of Art, published an article on a New Zealand artist in the recent edition of the Journal for Mid America Print Council entitled "Pacific Prints: The Prints of John Pule."National Gallery docents hear talk by Lauren Soth
November 8, 2007Lauren Soth, Professor of Art History Emeritus, gave a lecture in November on the Edward Hopper exhibition to the docents of the National Gallery in Washington. He was also invited to a celebration held at the Morgan Library in New York to mark the publication of the first volume in the series Van Gogh Studies, published by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.